(image) New Delhi: Home secretaries of India and Pakistan will meet in New Delhi for two days from Monday in the shadow of a possible summit meeting between the two sides on the margins of the cricket encounter in Mohali. No breakthrough is expected in the official-level talks being held after a gap of nine […]

Ranchi:  BJP on Sunday said it would focus on the next elections in Uttar Pradesh as Mayawati-led government "will not return" and the people "wouldn“t like to bring back" Samajwadi Party and Congress as it is "embroiled" in scams. "Mayawati government will not return while the people of Uttar Pradesh don“t like to bring Mulayam […]

Bhubaneswar: Countering the continuous allegations of the ruling BJD against the Centre for its negligence to the state, opposition Congress has mounted scathing attack on the state government for its inefficiency to spend the central assistance. A day after party MLA Naba Kishore Das released a fact sheet on the central assistance provided to the […]

London: People associate "good" with their dominant side, whether they`re right or left-handed. But it can be changed — for example, right-handers can be made to think like lefties, says a new study. A team, led by Daniel Casasanto at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands, showed 13 people a cartoon character […]

Bhubaneswar: Given the steady price rise of coal, the power tariff has gone high in the state as it is more dependent on thermal power. The Orissa State Electricity Board (OSEB) employees union on Sunday said that the state’s increasing dependence on thermal power has resulted in power tariff hike which could have been avoided. […]

London: An Indian-origin surgeon-led team in Britain has come up with a one-hour keyhole operation to replace heart valve, a breakthrough which offers hope to cardiac patients too sick to undergo an open-heart surgery. Vinayak Bapat of Guy`s and St Thomas` Hospital and his team have developed the procedure, called transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), […]

Bhubaneswar: In a bid to minimize the unending conflict between man and elephant, the officials of Chandaka Wildlife Sanctuary have published ‘Hathi Manisa Bibadara Samadhan’ (Solution to Man-Elephant Conflict), a book that would spread consciousness among the common mass as how to deal with the wild animal while coming across it accidentally. According to DFO […]

Balasore : Two persons were arrested on Sunday for allegedly raping a minor tribal girl near Kusudiha village, about 65 km from here. The two youths took the girl who had gone to visit a local fair to a lonely place and raped her on the night of March 25, police said. The girl`s uncle […]

New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday slammed Arun Jaitley over his reported comment that the BJP was using Hindutva as an opportunistic tool saying it exposed the real face of the opposition party and demanded an apology from him. "The BJP gave full credence to the WikiLeaks. So we test them by their own standards," […]

New Delhi: The CBI will file this week its first charge sheet into the 2G spectrum scam against former Telecom Minister A Raja and some of his close aides besides a couple of real estate companies for allegedly defrauding the exchequer and entering into a criminal conspiracy in securing the telecom licenses. CBI sources, however, […]

Ranchi: BJP President Nitin Gadkari on Sunday welcomed the invitation extended to top Pakistan leaders to the first semifinal World Cup match between India and that country, saying it was part of the country`s culture. "It`s the culture of our county. The government has invited them and we are not displeased at the invitation extended […]

Baripada: A case was registered against 15 persons, two Baptist pastors and 13 tribals, for alleged involvement in illegal religious conversion in Orissa`s Mauyrbhanj district, police said on Sunday. The case was registered yesterday after it was found that 13 tribals of Rasgobindpur area had been converted in an illegal manner by the two pastors, […]

Ranchi: BJP President Nitin Gadkari on Sunday termed the Wikileaks cable against party leader Arun Jaitley on Hindutva controversy as `wrong interpretation` of the communication. "It`s a wrong interpretation of the Hindutva issue. Arun Jaitley is a committed leader and such words (`opportunistic issues`) will never come from his mouth," Gadkari told a news conference […]

Mumbai: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said if the lingering sovereign debt crisis in some of the Eurozone economies is not contained, the global economy may fall into another crisis, which could have a debilitating impact on the fiscal consolidation efforts. "I hope the crisis in a small part of the Eurozone, where high […]

Berhampur: Commonwealth Games gold-medallist K Ravi Kumar of Berhampur has been selected to represent India in the Asian Weightlifting Championship to be held in China from April 12. "He is the only weightlifter from the country, selected by the Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWF) to participate in the Asian Weightlifting Championship which will be held at […]

Mumbai: Fox Star Studios has planned the widest-ever release for an Indian film in South Korea for Shah Rukh Khan`s `My Name is Khan`. The Karan Johar-directed movie was released in South Korea`s eight cities at 12 theatres on March 24, and on April 7, release will be widened to 200 theatres, Fox Star sources […]

Mumbai: Telugu film star Rana Daggubatti has managed to find a strong foothold in Bollywood even before the release of his debut movie, "Dum Maro Dum". The Rohan Sippy-directed movie, which also stars Abhishek Bachchan and Bipasha Basu, releases on April 22. Rana, who is the grandson of doyen of Telugu movies D Rama Naidu, […]

New Delhi: Union Minister Kapil Sibal on Sunday said Arun Jaitley`s reported comment that the BJP was using Hindutva as an opportunistic tool has exposed the real face of the party and demanded an apology from him. The senior Congress leader also asked BJP veteran L K Advani and RSS to tell the nation "what […]

Mohali: Pakistan`s Test captain Misbah-ul Haq feels that Shahid Afridi`s greatest quality has been to bring unity in the team which has always been in the news for all wrong reasons. "He (Afridi) listens to senior players, he takes senior players and the coaches into confidence. We decide everything with a good co-ordination, and that`s […]

Hyderabad: Airfares are determined by market forces and Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has no authority to control them, a top official said. Speaking at an event here, Bharat Bhushan, Director General of Civil Aviation also said that capacity constrains at major airports coupled with increased Air Turbine Fuel (ATF) cost is putting pressure […]